Jamie Woodhouse

Sentientism

Society EN ↓ 246 episodes

We discuss the biggest questions: "what's real?", "who matters?" and "how to make a better world?" with scientists, celebrities, activists, writers and philosophers. The Sentientism worldview is "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings." It's a simple, yet radical, philosophy that's grounded in reality (naturalistic epistemology) and has compassion for all sentient beings (mostly human and non-human animals). Naturalism & sentiocentrism combined. Find out more at https://sentientism.info/ or join a group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sentientism. Also on YouTube!

Author

Jamie Woodhouse

Category

Society

Podcast website

sentientism.info

Latest episode

Jun 7, 2026

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Episodes

22: "A Fabulous Vegan Future!" - Jasmin Singer, Author & Activist - Sentientist Conversations 18.01.2021

Jasmin Singer is the author of “ The VegNews Guide to Being a Fabulous Vegan ” and the memoir “ Always Too Much and Never Enough “. She’s the co-founder & co-host of the award-winning Our Hen House podcast & nonprofit (now in its eleventh year), the Director of Editorial for Kinder Beauty, & the editor of the Encompass Essays: “Pursuing Racial Equity in Animal Advocacy” . Jasmin was na...

21: "How can I have been morally asleep for so long?" - Prof Randall Abate - Sentientist Conversation 14.01.2021

Randall is an author and environmental, animal, climate and constitutional law professor at Monmouth University in New Jersey. His books include “What Can Animal Law Learn From Environmental Law?” and “Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources”. In these  Sentientist Conversations (subscribe!) , we talk about the two most important questi...

20: “De-centring the human” – Robot (and other non-human) Rights author Josh Gellers - Sentientist Conversation 11.01.2021

Josh Gellers is an associate professor at the University of North Florida. His work spans animal, environmental and artificial intelligence ethics and law. He is a research fellow with the Earth System Governance Project and is a Fulbright scholar. He is Author of “Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law” (open access!). Full show notes are here: https://sentientis...

19: "Diverse sentients could live in mutual symbiosis" - Artist Graham Bessellieu - Sentientist Conversations 08.01.2021

Full show notes at: https://sentientism.info/diverse-sentients-could-live-in-mutual-symbiosis-graham-bessellieu-new-sentientist-conversation . The video is here on the Sentientism YouTube channel . Graham is an artist, a photographer and a video/audio content producer. In these Sentientist Conversations, we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?”. Sentient...

18: "Being in balance with ourselves and the rest of the living world" - Author Gill Coombs - Sentientist Conversation 04.01.2021

Gill is an author, coach & counsellor. She was a UK parliamentary candidate for the Green Party. She focuses on helping people live in balance with themselves & the rest of the living world. Her books include “The Trembling Warrior”, “Hearing our Calling” & “The Game”. In these Sentientist Conversations, we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters...

17: "The only moral discrimination?" - Future Based - Sentientism cross-post bonus episode 30.12.2020

This episode is a cross-post from the Future Based Podcast where Annika van den Born interviewed me (Jamie) about Sentientism . The podcast is part of the Future Based initiative that aims to facilitate inter-disciplinary discussions and collaborations about our collective future. Annika and I discuss how naturalism and sentiocentrism come together in Sentientism. We talk about the risks of enviro...

16: “How can we do the most good for non-human animals?” - Jamie Harris – Animal Advocacy Careers co-founder & Sentience Institute Researcher - Sentientist Conversations 28.12.2020

Full show notes are here: https://sentientism.info/how-can-we-do-the-most-good-for-non-human-animals-jamie-harris-animal-advocacy-careers-co-founder-sentience-institute-researcher-new-sentientist-conversation You can find the video of our conversation here https://youtu.be/ea_v6kWCGZQ Jamie is co-founder of and researcher at the non-profit Animal Advocacy Careers , a researcher at the Sentience In...

15: "Let's end humanity's war on the rest of the planet" - Better Meat CEO & Hall of Famer Paul Shapiro - Sentientist Conversations 24.12.2020

Paul Shapiro https://twitter.com/PaulHShapiro is the author of the national bestseller "Clean Meat": https://cleanmeat.com/ . He's also the CEO of The Better Meat Co. https://www.bettermeat.co/ , a four-time TEDx speaker, host of the Business for Good Podcast https://www.businessforgoodpodcast.com/ & inductee in the Animal Rights Hall of Fame.  In these Sentientist Conversations, we talk...

14: Give Yourself The Chat - Sentientism cross-post bonus episode 19.12.2020

This episode is a cross-post from the Give Yourself The Chat podcast where I (Jamie) was interviewed about Sentientism . Peter Lewis is a coach, consultant and, as we found out in this conversation, a fellow Sentientist. Peter's podcast focuses on personal development and practical philosophy. If that sounds interesting - why not subscribe to the podcast and sign up for his mailing list at https:/...

13: “Humans might one day need to beg AIs for our sentient rights” – AI expert Roman Yampolskiy – Sentientist Conversations 15.12.2020

Full show notes & links here . Roman is a Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Louisville. He is known for his work on behavioral biometrics, the security of cyberworlds & artificial intelligence safety. He founded the field of intellectology – the analysis of the forms & limits of intelligence. He is director of the Cyber Security Laboratory in the depa...

12: "As a vet I felt helpless" - Vicky Bond, Managing Director of Humane League UK - Sentientist Conversations 11.12.2020

Vicky is Managing Director of The Humane League UK . She trained as a vet and worked in the animal agriculture industry before leaving to focus on campaigning for non-human animals. In these Sentientist Conversations, we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Full show notes and links here . This conversation is also available here on our Sentientism YouT...

11: “No victim, no problem!” – Floris van den Berg - Activist Vegan Atheist Philosopher - Sentientist Conversations 09.12.2020

Visit Sentientism.info (click here) for full show notes! Subscribe to the Sentientism YouTube channel to watch the video of our conversation . Floris’s bio states he is “a philosopher and therefore an atheist”. He is a practical, activist, vegan philosopher. He has written a number of books including “Philosophy for a Better World”, “On Green Liberty”, “De vrolijke veganist” (“The Happy Vegan”) an...

10: “We’ll look back on this era of humanity as barbaric” – Campaigner CEO Naomi Smith - Sentientist Conversations 07.12.2020

Naomi is the CEO of Best for Britain , the UK’s leading non-partisan advocacy group upholding internationalist values. Before her campaigning and political career she worked in the corporate world and chaired a number of voluntary groups. She describes herself as an internationalist, xenophile, humanist, vegan. She co-hosts the Oh God What Now? (formerly Remainiacs) and The Bunker podcasts. In the...

9: "We need to systematise benevolence" - David Pearce - Sentientist Conversations 04.12.2020

David Pearce is a philosopher & co-founder of the World Transhumanist Organisation, now Humanity+. His work centres on "The Hedonistic Imperative" - a moral obligation to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life." You can find the video of our conversation here . We discuss: - " The Hedonistic Imperative "  - Using biotech to abolish suffering & replace it with gra...

8: "My enemy, which I will destroy, is arbitrariness!" - Sentientist Conversations - Stijn Bruers 01.12.2020

In these Sentientist Conversations, we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Stijn is a physicist (phd), economist (phd in progress), animal activist, rational moral philosopher (another phd) and an Effective Altruist! He co-founded and is president of EA Belgium . He’s currently researching economics at the university of Leuven. We talk about: Academic...

7: From Devout Sunday School Teacher to Atheist, Vegan, Sentientist Academic and Author - Sentientist Conversations - John Adenitire 29.11.2020

John shares his story, from being a devout Pentecostalist Sunday School Teacher in Nigeria to being a Sentientist, atheist, vegan academic and author. Video version here. John is Strategic Lecturer in the School of Law and a Fellow of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. He is a cellist and dancer. We discuss: John growing up in Nigeria, then Italy in...

6: “I love the idea of Sentientism” - Bestselling Author AJ Jacobs 26.11.2020

New York Times bestselling (4 times!) author and journalist AJ Jacobs experiments on himself to help us all learn. In this Sentientist Conversation he talks with Jamie about what he believes, what matters morally, and how his writing projects link to Sentientism's tenets of evidence, reason and universal compassion. The video of our conversation is here - why not subscribe on YouTube too? AJ:...

5: Prince throws a creationist tantrum! - Sentientist Conversations - Carole Raphaelle Davis #2 23.11.2020

What's it like to have Prince throw a creationist tantrum when you take him on his first trip to a natural history museum? Carole Raphaelle Davis tells us what it's like to be a radical feminist, atheist, vegan (and Sentientist) in the showbiz world of Hollywood. "Sentientism feels like home!"  We talk about: - What it was like to work with and socialise with Prince - and how his...

4: "Do you want a habitable planet for your children?" - Sentientist Conversations - Zion Lights 20.11.2020

Zion Lights is an author & activist known for her environmental work & science communication. She is UK director of Environmental Progress. She has been a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion (XR) UK on TV and radio, and founded & edited XR’s Hourglass newspaper. She has written for The Huffington Post, authored the evidence-based nonfiction book The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting,...

3: "We have a golden opportunity to re-imagine our relationships with non-human animals." - Sentientist Conversations - Joe Wills 18.11.2020

In this Sentientist Conversation I talk to Law and Rights Lecturer and Author, Dr. Joe Wills . We talk about what’s real and what matters morally. “We have a golden opportunity to re-imagine our relationships with non-human animals.” We discuss: – Religious indoctrination and influences in childhood – Morality without the supernatural – The dangers of having too narrow a moral circle (within and b...

1: Welcome to the Sentientism Podcast! Evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings. 12.11.2020

Hi, Welcome to our new podcast. This is just a quick trailer. You can look forward to conversations with celebrities, activists, academics and interested lay people about "what's real?" and "what matters?". While Sentientism is a very simple, common sense, philosophy, it has some deeply radical implications! A commitment to evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings might seem obvious...

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